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Taranaki Herald, Volume XVI, Issue 821, 18 April 1868, Page 3

A Maori Reform Association in Auckland. —It will bo seen Bays the SvutJiern Cross that a rneetiug of the Maori and European Reform Association will be held in the hall at Orakei on the Afternoon of Friday next. The advertisement is signed by Reihapa Reweti, as secretary, and at first .we wore quite puzzled to guess what might be the objects of the Association. It might be an Association to reform ihe morals of both races, and, as there is abundant room for that, everybody would of course wish it all success. However, from a gentleman who, we presume, speaks with authority, we are enabled to satisfy the public curiosity. The objects oj the Association are certainly sweeping enough. They are : — The equal good government of the' Maori and Euro* paan population, by making the common law apply to both ; the furtherance of all eflorts at financial reform ; the better representation of the Maoris aud Europeans of the North Island in the Legislature of the country ; the dissemination among the Maoris of a popular knowledge of the laws, and of the principles upon which tiiey are framhd ; and the dissemination among Europeans of a popular knowledge of the usages, customs, and existing laws among the Maoris, so thac the perplexity which exists on both Bides regarding many matters may be done away with. S The Pbess Newspaper. — Our contemporary the Press, announced in yesterday's issue Us retirement from the list of dnily papers. For the future (temporarily) it will be published on Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday in each week. T — Ifljttlelon Tiv:3i, April 1.